Professor Mayez Abdullah Al-Mouhamed (Al Dandashi)


Computer Engineering Department
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
Dhahran 31261, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Email: Mayez@kfupm.edu.sa
Phone: 966-3-860-2934 (office)
Fax: 966-3-860-3059 (Dept.).

EDUCATION:

  • Ph.D. (Doctorat D'Etat), Electronics Res. Laboratory, Electrical Eng. Department, University of Paris XI , France 1982. Department of Electronics and Nuclear Instrumentation (DEIN), Saclay Nuclear Research Center (CEA), Saclay,  91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

  • Third Cycle Doctorate,  Electronics Res. Laboratory, Electrical Eng. Department, University of Paris XI , France, 1977. Saclay Nuclear Research Center (CEA), Saclay,  91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

  • Diplome D ' Etudes Approfondies (MSc), Electronics Research Laboratory, Electrical Eng. Department, University of Paris XI, France, 1976. National Institute for Nuclear Sciences and Techniques (INSTN), Saclay,  91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

  • B.Sc., Electrical Eng. Department,  University of Paris XI, France, 1975.

  • University Diploma for Scientific Studies (DUES Math-Physics), University of Paris XI, France, June, 1972.

    • ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Professor, Computer Engineering Dept., KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 1998-now 

  • Visiting Associate Professor, On leave to ICS, Univ. of California Irvine, USA. Sep. 1992-Aug 1992    

  • Associate Professor, Computer Engineering Dept., KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. June 1991-June 1998      

  • Assistant professor, Computer Engineering Dept., KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Jun.1983-June 1991       

  • Research Associate, University of Paris XI, Nuclear Research Center, Saclay, France. Jan. 1982-1983.

  • Research Assistant, University of Paris XI, Nuclear Research Center, Saclay, France. Jan. 1976-1982.  

    • AWARDS AND HONORS

    RESEARCH INTERESTS

    MEMBERSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARDS

    PATENTS

    JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

     CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

    1. M. Al-Mouhamed, M. Basire, A. Csakvary, E. De Cosnac, and B. Dupeyrat, Study of some heuristics for robot manipulating objects, text in French. AFCET Conf. on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition, September 20-23, Poittier, France, pp. 471-481, 1981.
    2. Mayez Al-Mouhamed and Hussam Al-Mohammad, Software and sensory system for welding by robots, The 7th IASTED Inter. Symp. on Robotics and Automation, June 24-26, 1985, Lugano, Swizerland.
    3. Mayez Al-Mouhamed, A sensor system for robotic welding, The 2nd Saudi Engineers Conference, November 16-19, 1985, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, pp. 3571-3586.
    4. Hussam Al-Mohammad and Mayez Al-Mouhamed, Utilization of conductor silicone in the design of a matrix of cells sensitive to pressure, text in french, AFCET Conference on Indentification and Pattern Recognition, Vol 1, June 18-20, 1986, pp.77-91.
    5. Mayez Al-Mouhamed, An intelligent remotely controlled manipulator system, The IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, January 19-20, 1987, Pennsylvania, USA, pp. 220-225.
    6. Hussam Al-Mohammad and Mayez Al-Mouhamed, Identification of object faces by tactile sensor, The 8th Inter. Conference on Automated Inspection and Product Control, Sponsored by the Manufacturing Productivity Center of America (MPCA), and IFS, June 23-25, 1987, Chicago, USA, pp.97-108.
    7. Hussam Al-Mohammad and Mayez Al-Mouhamed, Parallel processing of the rapid transform and application to visual pattern recognition, The 10th national Computer Conference (NCC'88), Vol 1, February 28 to March 2, 1988, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, pp. 69-80.
    8. Mayez Al-Mouhamed and F.A. Bubshait, A Comparative Study of Scheduling Large Number of Iterative Tasks, Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS), Vol. 2, Oct. 30, 1989, Cesme-Turkey, pp. 1297-1306.
    9. Mayez Al-Mouhamed, Lower Bounds on Time for Scheduling Precedence Graphs with Communication Costs, Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS), Vol. 1, Nov. 1, 1990, Capadocia-Turkey, pp. 637-646.
    10. Mayez Al-Mouhamed, Parallel Processing of Robot Dynamics on a shared Memory Multiprocessor System, Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS), Vol. 2, Nov. 1, 1990, Capadocia-Turkey, pp. 1155-1164.
    11. Mayez Al-Mouhamed, A Database Approach to Hierarchical Image Storage and Recognition, Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS), Vol. 2, Oct. 30, 1991, Antalia-Turkey, pp. 991-1000.
    12. Mayez Al-Mouhamed and Mohamad Attyah, Performance Guarantee for Distributed Scheduling on Non-Uniform Memory Access Architectures, Proceedings of the 13th National Computer Conference (NCC), Vol. 1, pp. 183-197, Nov. 28, 1992.
    13. Lubomir Bic and Mayez Al-Mouhamed, The EM-4 Under Implicit Parallelism, Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS'93), Tokyo, Japan, July 20-22, 1993. pp. 21-26.
    14. Lubomir Bic and Mayez Al-Mouhamed, Automatic Parallelization Techniques for the EM-4, Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Boca Raton, FL, Vol 2, Aug. 16, 1993, pp. 25-28.
    15. Mayez Al-Mouhamed, Steven Seiden, and Hussam Abu-Haimed, Array organization in Lock-Step Parallel Memories, 11th Inter. Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS), Vol 1, 1996, pp. 327-336.
    16. Mayez Al-Mouhamed, Steven Seiden, and Hussam Abu-Haimed, Minimization of Memory and Network Contention for for Accessing Arbitrary Power-of-2 Data Patterns, 11th Inter. Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS), Vol 1, 1996, pp. 443-452.
    17. Mayez Al-Mouhamed and Adel Al-Maasarani, Performance Evaluation of Scheduling on Message-Passing Multiprocessors, 11th Inter. Symposium Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS), Vol 1, 1996, pp. 337-344.
    18. Mayez Al-Mouhamed and Lubomir Bic, Effects of Loop Fusion and Statement Migration on the Speedup of Vector Processors, Inter. Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT'94), Montreal, Aug 24, pp. 193-202, 1994. 
    19. Mayez Al-Mouhamed and Adel Al-Maasarani, Scheduling Optimization Through Iterative Refinement. Inter. Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT'95), Limassol, Cyprus, Jun 27-29, pp. 178-184.
    20. Mayez Al-Mouhamed, Lubomir Bic, and Hussam Abu-Haimed, A Compiler Address Transformation For Conflict-Free Access of Memories and Networks, IEEE Symp. on Parallel and Distributed Processing (SPDP'96). New Orleans, Oct 1996, pp. 530-537.
    21. Mayez Al-Mouhamed, Lubomir Bic, and Hussam Abu-Haimed, A Compiler Transformation to Improve Memory Access Time in SIMD Systems, Inter. Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT'96), Boston, Oct 1996. pp. 174-178. Sponsored by IEEE C.S., IFIP Concurrent sys., and ACM-SGARCH.  
    22. Mayez Al-Mouhamed and Lubomir Bic, Evaluation of Self-Timed Dataflow on the iPSC-2 Hypercube, National Computer Conference, Nov 17, Vol 2, pp. 471-482, 1997.
    23. Mayez Al-Mouhamed and Homam Najjari, Adaptive Scheduling of Computations and Communications on Distributed Memory Systems, Inter. Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT'98), Paris-France, Oct 14-17, 1998, pp. 366-373.
    24. Mayez Al-Mouhamed, Habib Youssef, and Wasif Hassan, A Parallel-Tree Switch Architecture for ATM Networks, The IEEE 7th Inter. Conf. on Computer Communications and Networks (IC3N'98), 12-15 October, 1998, Lafayette, Lousiana, USA.
    25. Mayez Al-Mouhamed and Mohammad Kaleemudding, Evaluation of Pipelined Switch Architectures for ATM Networks, Fourth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'99), Red-Sea, Egypt, July 6-8, 1999, pp. 266-272.
    26. Mayez Al-Mouhamed and Hussam Abu-Haimed, Evaluation of Neural and Genetic Algorithms For Synthesizing Parallel Storage Schemes. International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'2000), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 26-29, 2000.
    27. Mayez Al-Mouhamed, Onur Toker, and Asif Iqbal, Design of a Multi-Threaded Distributed Telerobtic Framework, the 10th IEEE Inter. Conf. On Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Vol 3, 2003, pp. 1280-1283.
    28. Mayez Al-Mouhamed, Onur Toker, and Asif Iqbal, Performance Evaluation of a Multi-Threaded Distributed Telerobtic Framework, the 10th IEEE Inter. Conf. On Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Vol 3, Dec. 2003, pp. 1284-1287.
    29. Mayez Al-Mouhamed, Onur Toker, and Abdul-Khalik Al-Harthy, "A 3D Vision-Based Man-Machine Interface For Hand-Controlled Telerobot", IFAC Inter. Conf on Intelligent Control Systems and Signal Processing, C-sponsored by IEEE, IFSA, and EVONET, Faro, Portugal, April 8-11, 2003, pp. 586-591.
    30. Mayez Al-Mouhamed, A Scalable Family of High-Speed Switch Architectures, 10th IEEE Inter. Conf. On Electronics, Circuits and Systems (2003), Vol 1, pp. 32-35.
    31. Mayez Al-Mouhamed, Onur Toker, Asif Iqbal, and M. Nazeeruddin, A Distributed Framework for Relaying Stereo Vision for Telerobotics, IEEE Inter. Conference on Pervasive Services, Beirut, Lebanon, July 19-23, 2004, pp. 221-225.
    32. M. Al-Mouhamed, M. Nazeeruddin, and A. Iqbal, A Modular Distributed Telerobotic Client-Server System, Inter. Conference on Information and Computer Science (ICICS’04), KFUPM, Dhahran, KSA, Nov, 28-30, 2004,
    33. Mayez A. Al-Mouhamed, Onur Toker, Asif Iqbal, and Syed M.S. Islam, Evaluation of Real-Time Delays for Networked Telerobotics, 3rd Inter. IEEE Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN’05), 10-12 August 2005, Perth, Western Australia, pp. 351-356.
    34. Mayez A. Al-Mouhamed, Mohammad Nazeeruddin, and Syed M.S. Islam, Evaluation of Assembly Tasks in Augmented Telerobotics, 2nd International AUS Symposium on Mechatronics (AUS-ISM05), April 19-21, 2005, Sharjah, UAE.
    35. Al-Mouhamed, M., Buhari, S.M., Nazeeruddin, M., Islam, S.M.S., “Qualitative Evaluation of Computer-Aided Teleopearation”, In Proc. of the 4th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA-06), March 8-11, 2006, Dubai,Sharjah, UAE.
    36. M. A. Al-Mouhamed, M. Nazeeruddin, and N. Merah, Design and Analysis of Force Feedback in Telerobotics, 3rd International AUS Symposium on Mechatronics, April 18-20, 2006, Sharjah, UAE.
    37. Syed M.S. Islam, M. Al-Mouhamed, S.M. Buhari, and Talal Al-Kharoubi, “A Hierarchical Design Scheme for Application of Augmented Reality in a Telerobotic Stereo-Vision System”, the Saudi 18th National Computer Conference (NCC18), March 26-29, 2006. Riyadh, KSA.
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    38. Islam, Syed M.S., Al-Mouhamed, M.A., Al-Kharobi, T. and Buhari, S.M. “Augmentation of a Telerobotic Stereo-Vision System Using Graphical Overlays,” Proc. of the First International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (IIS), Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, August 8-11, 2006. (accepted for oral presentation).
    39. M. A. Al-Mouhamed, M. Nazeeruddin, and N. Merah, Force-Based Compliant Behaviors to Augment Telerobotics, 4th International AUS Symposium on Mechatronics, March 26-29, 2007, Sharjah, UAE.
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    40. M. Al-Mouhamed and U. F. Siddiqi, Performance Evaluation of Auctions WLAN for RoboCup Multi-Robot Cooperation, The 7th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA-2009), 10-13 May 2009, Page(s):610 – 615.
    41. M. Al-Mouhamed and A. Abu-Arafah, Design of a Library of Motion Functions for a Humanoid Robot for a Football Game, The 8th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA-2010), 2010, Page(s):1– 6.
    42. A. Dandashi and M. Al-Mouhamed, Graph Coloring for Class Scheduling, The 8th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA-2010), 2010, Page(s):1 – 4.
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    43. M. A. Al-Mouhamed, I. A. Khan, and S. N. Firdous, A Reliable Peer-to-Peer Protocol for Mobile Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks,  9th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA-2011), 2011.

    44. M. A. Al-Mouhamed and K. A. Daud, Performance Evaluation of OpenMp on the IBM 1350 Supercomputer, To be submitted to the 10th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA-2012), 2012.

    Research Report

  • Research Report

    Educational workshop

    • Invited by Dr. Lee DeVet, KAUST Global Collaborative Research to attend the Workshop on “Models for Success in Managing National Research Resources” which was co-sponsored by KACST and KAUST from October 31 to November 1, 2009, at the KAUST campus in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.

    • Workshop on KFUPM-ARAMCO ICT Collaboration Program, 10th of March 2009, RI, KFUPM.

    • Attended a two-day workshop on “Peer Consultation in Teaching” Saturday 3-4, May 2008. The workshop is offered by the TLC-DAD-KFUPM and Professor Sergio Piccinin.

    • Attended a Five-day Workshop on “Peer Consultation in Teaching” offered by the TLC-DAD-KFUPM and Professor Sergio Piccinin, December 29, 2007 to January 3, 2008.

    • Attended a one-day Workshop on “ABET Criterion C2 and C3”, by Prof. Edwin Wiggins, Professor of Marine Engineering, Webb Institute, Glen Cove, New York, USA, March 6, 2007. KFUPM.

    • Attended the half-day CCSE Workshop on the Engineering Discipline, March, 2007. Proposed the CCSE Community to develop a CCSE Strategic Plan to improve the Engineering Instruction and Practices  in classroom and laboratories.

    • "Gulf Academic Assessment Program Using ABET CT 2000", King Abdul-Aziz University, Jeddah, First and second of May, 2004.

    •  “Developping the Communication Skills of Students”, presented by Prof. Sergio Piccinin, Univ. of  Ottawa, Organized by the DAD, KFUPM, 4-5 September, 2004.

    • “Active Learning to Foster Critical Thinking”, presented by Prof. Sergio Piccinin, Univ. of  Ottawa, Organized by the DAD, KFUPM,  September 6, 2004.

    • “Peer Consultation in Teaching”, TLC-DAD-KFUPM and Professor Sergio Piccinin, December 29, 2007 to January 3, 2008.
    • "Effective Teaching and Learning Practices", TLC-DAD-KFUPM and Professor Sergio Piccinin, December 30, 2007.
    • Workshop on “Program Continuous Quality Improvement”  by Dr.  Mahesh Aggarwal from the Mechanical Eng. Dept.  at the Gannon University  USA, , KFUPM, September 14-15-16, 2008

     

    MSC/PHD THESES

    Title

    Details

    A Novel Fast Packet Switch Architecture for ATM Networks,

    M.Sc. Thesis, Wassif Hasan, Computer Engineering Dept, KFUPM, March 1996.

    Organization of Parallel Memories.

    M.Sc. Thesis, Hussam Abu-Haimed, Computer Engineering Dept, KFUPM, June 1997.

    A Pipelined ATM Switch Architecture,

    M.Sc. Thesis, Mohammad Kaleemuddin, Computer Engineering Dept, KFUPM, June 1997.

    Heuristic Scheduling of Computations and Communications through Improved Iterative Refinement,

    M.Sc. Thesis, Homam Najjari, Information and Computer Science, KFUPM,  June 1996.

    Simulated Evolution based Scheduling of Computations and Communications.

    M.Sc. Thesis, Nadeem Mohammad Mohsen, Computer Engineering Dept,  KFUPM, October 1996.
    Robust Conegestion Control for ATMs ABR Service and Design of a Datalink Layer Interface Library. M.Sc. Thesis, M. Nazeeruddin, Systems Engineering Dept, KFUPM, May 1999.

    Design of a Telerobotic Control System over a LAN.

    M.Sc. Thesis, Abd-Alkhalik Al-Harthy, Systems Engineering Dept, KFUPM, October 2002.

    Design and Evaluation of a Distributed Components Framework for Telerobotics.

    M.Sc. Thesis, Assif Iqbal, Systems Engineering Dept, KFUPM, June 2003.

    A Deadlock-Free Routing in Mesh Networks.

    M.Sc. Thesis, Z. Alawwami, Information and Computer Science, KFUPM, October 2001.

    Offline Arabic Character Recognition

    M.Sc. Thesis, Syed Nazim Nawaz, ICS, KFUPM,  June 2003

    Identification of Saudi Arabian Number Plates

    M.Sc. Thesis, Yusuf Syed Adnan, Information and Computer Science, KFUPM, April, 2004.

    Network Management using XML

    M.Sc. Thesis, Shaik Sirajuddin, Computer Engineering Dept, KFUPM, Sep., 2004.

    Invariant Pattern Recognition System

    M.Sc. Thesis, Mujeeb Khusro, Information and Computer Science, KFUPM, April, 2004.

    Evolutionary Heuristic Optimization for digital Curves and Surfaces

    M.Sc. Thesis, Meerja Baig, Information and Computer Science, KFUPM, April, 2004.

    A Comparative Study of Fair Scheduling Algorithms for Mulitmedia Celluar Networks

    M.Sc. Thesis, Shareef Youssef, Computer Engineering Dept, KFUPM, March, 2006.

    Design of an Augmented Reality System for Stereo Graphic Displays

    M.Sc. Thesis, Sayed Shams Islam, Computer Engineering Dept, KFUPM, March, 2006.
    Optimizing Backoff Procedure for Enhanced Throughput and Fairness in Wireless LANs M.Sc. Thesis, Adel Abdulaziz Al-Akeel, Computer Engineering Dept, KFUPM, June 2007.

    A Study on Cross-Layer Optimization for Application Specific Wireless Sensor Networks.

    PhD Thesis, Tayseer A. Y. Al-Khdour, Computer Engineering Dept, KFUPM, June 2009.